Post #1763972
2025-10-23 01:36 UTC
I gave a talk at MagnoliaConf in Jackson, MS today about how I am sick of frontend build steps (and what to do instead). I'm probably going to turn it into a three-part blog series. But for now I do have my talk in text form. https://blakewatson.com/magnolia2025
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@AdamBishop@floss.social 2025-10-23 05:46
@bw Nice! 👏🙏
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@mb21@hachyderm.io 2025-10-23 10:04
Awesome talk! 👏 The types in JSDoc approach is neat. But even though https://mastrojs.github.io is vocally #noBundler (by default), TypeScript is the one exception, where I decided to use ts-blank-space to transparently transform .client.ts files to .client.js. I’d argue, since it’s a small dependency, and errors/stack traces still point to the right place in the source file, the advantages outweigh the magic factor. For server-side, Deno and even Node support running TypeScript natively now. I think there’s even a proposal for browsers to strip types as well.
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@mb21@hachyderm.io 2025-10-23 17:59
@bw btw. @Lowrain you were interested in the #noBundler topic, right?